Destiny 2's Guardian Voice is Weirdly Inconsistent

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Following on from the popular Destiny first released in 2014, Destiny 2 expanded the previous game's shared-world environment and leveled up the activities on offer, as well as improving other features. With consistent seasonal updates and post-launch support, Destiny 2 has continued to provide more content for players and advance the game's core story through major expansions. While these updates and expansions often bring with them changes and overhauls to Destiny 2's gameplay and mechanics, one of the slightly stranger and admittedly inconsistent updates was the addition of a voice for the playable Guardian.

Destiny featured six voice actors that portrayed the Guardian, each representing a gender/race combo like an Exo male or Awoken female. Although the playable protagonist technically did have a voice, it featured sparingly and didn't do much to convey the character of the Guardian. The game was well-received, but some of Destiny's aspects were criticized, and the voice acting came under scrutiny. Peter Dinklage — the voice of Ghost — was even replaced by Nolan North after his performance was described as one-note and repetitive. Bungie decided to move away from portraying a Guardian with a voice in Destiny 2, except for one or two notable exceptions which have baffled and confused fans.

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For the majority of Destiny 2 — and up until the release of Destiny 2: Forsaken in 2018 — the Guardian that gamers play as is mute. Whereas the Guardian in Destiny had a few sporadic lines of dialogue, Bungie chose to move away from this completely during the sequel's first year. However, this decision was again reversed in Forsaken, as the previously silent Guardian finally